To watch a great film is to be fed aesthetically, emotionally, and intellectually. But there are certain great films that do more: they serve as time machines, bringing us backwards or forwards into stages of life that we have already traveled or will eventually and hopefully travel in the future. I call these ”stages of...

Here’s a little multiple choice quiz: When we come to the end of life, what is it that we are most likely to regret? Is it: a) ”I wish that I had spent more time answering my email” b). ”I wish I had spent more time texting.” c) ”I wish I had spent more time cleaning...

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors who ever lived. He patented the incandescent light bulb, the carbon microphone, the phonograph, the motion picture projector, and a thousand other inventions. But few people know that Edison also was working on a machine that would be able to communicate with the dead. In an article...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol provides a map of the stages of life, which in this case, occurs not in a straight line but in a circle: The Chi-Kha Bardo – this state occurs at the moment of death, when the dying person has the potential to perceive The Clear Light...